Events & Opportunities
November 5, 2026
Writing Around Harney County
A public reading at the Harney County Library featuring Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston.
6:00 p.m., Harney County Library, Burns
November 18, 2026
At a Loss for Words
Join Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston for a free and public event in the Lincoln City Cultural Center. The event will include a presentation and time for audience Q&A.
6:30 p.m., Lincoln City Cultural Center, Lincoln City
December 3, 2026
Poetry Night: Ellen Waterston and Jeff Fearnside
Cozy up for a night of poetry as acclaimed writers Ellen Waterston and Jeff Fearnside share their latest collections. Completed while travelling the state during her first year as Oregon’s Poet Laureate, the poems in Waterston’s As Far as I Can Anthem enlist the people and places across Oregon to inform, challenge and inspire readers in vital and unexpected ways. Fearnside’s most recent book, Lake: Love Poems, is focused on the concept of place, specifically Central Asia, where he lived for four years, and Oregon, his home for the past 13 years. The poems are connected by the thread of his courtship with and marriage to the woman who has experienced these places with him, his life partner Valentina.
Free tickets are available here.
5:30 p.m., PRAx, Corvallis